This, to me, remains the strongest argument against a TikTok ban. Even if you believe that China is using TikTok as a deep state plot (which as a reminder, there's no evidence of), it's futile to fix the pinhole leak in the wall if the ceiling is gushing water

Discovery Education is a popular provider of K-12 digital curricula - and its corporate partnerships allow it to push oil and gas industry propaganda in front of millions of kids in the US. new from me for Rolling Stone & Drilled - rollingstone.com/politics/polit…

thank fucken god for John Herrman

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'security theater'

'a drop in the bucket'

'more political drama than really effective legislation'

Privacy policy analysts aren't mincing words when it comes to the potential TikTok ban.

scientificamerican.com/article/tiktok…

Cool new OSINT tool: Internet Archive now offers a full text search of select domains.

Here's a 'Peter Thiel' search on the Gawker archive. web.archive.org/gawker.com/sea…

Genuinely curious: if the argument is that transit riders don’t have 4th amendment rights on MTA property, does that also apply to drivers using MTA bridges and tunnels? Would the National Guard be able to search every car going over the Whitestone without reasonable suspicion?

Artists are using clever new tools to thwart AIs trying to steal their work scientificamerican.com/article/art-an… by Lauren Leffer on Scientific American

Israel has launched a series of strikes on Rafah, the densely populated city on the southern edge of the Gaza Strip on the Egyptian border where 1.4 million Palestinians have fled. apnews.com/article/israel…

A great lesson in terrible framing.

Freelance investigative journalists take on enormous personal liability for their work, which benefits everyone. Please support, if you can.

Genetic studies don't offer a complete portrait of human sexuality and often we overinterpret them. Read all about it!

This is absolutely brutal and the product of clear mismanagement.

Read this

Q: How easy is it to create convincing audio deepfakes at this point?
A: It’s trivial.
scientificamerican.com/article/ai-aud… by Lauren Leffer with Hany Farid on @SciAm

My first for Hakai Magazine: Mediterranean gulls get in on 'girl dinner' and shape ecosystems in the process.

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Fun fun FUN a new video technique shows how the world looks to birds & bees & other species that can see different wavelengths of light scientificamerican.com/article/animal… by Lauren Leffer on @SciAm

Amid the machine-learning boom, model developers have built an all-purpose digital oracle from a trove of big data trib.al/fM1Oepw

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Machine learning models are basically just statistical tools with massive data capacity. They can recognize patterns, including patterns of life and death. Wrote about it for SciAm.

Does emoji biodiversity matter? Why isn't there a starfish emoji? Read on to find out!